Sailing to Byzantium (1933) IThat is no country for old men. The youngIn one another’s arms, birds in the trees,–Those dying generations–at their song,The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer longWhatever

I had occasion to watch a slew of these talent show YouTube compilations recently, and came away with much the same feeling as ArtfldgrsGhost – if you don’t have an obsessively self promoting personality, you can have all the brains and talent, but no one will ever notice unless you have a pedigree or you’re insanely lucky. Like Artfl, I nave some personal experience with that, not from the performing arts but as a freakin’ corporate CPA.

For every person who makes it big in entertainment or business, there are ten thousand just as talented who watch from the outside.

Well, good on her for making it big from nowhere, at least once in her life.

Because they aren’t using their language cores, they’re thinking in the musical cores.

2. How is it that people with thick speaking accents lose their accents when singing?
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I hear what you’re saying.

Accents are distinguished not just by the sound of vowels and pronunciation of consonants, but by rhythm, intonation, stress, etc. — all of which can get displaced by music.

There are several articles on the web but this is the fullest explanation I found in a quick search.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/08/why-british-singers-lose-their-accent-when-singing/

This one has vocal examples.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/why-dont-british-singers-have-british-accents-when-they-sing#.ehkR4zQ6

The greatest American example of “losing the accent” is the singing Jim Nabors v. his Gomer Pyle persona.

it only allows you to sit in a smaller waiting room as your life dribbles away and there is no place to go. so you just wait to die in a room of other talented people.. watching very untalented sales people win the game.

even less if your not protected class and on one is interested in anything you do… “no matter how hard you work, what you do, or achieve, you will never get a raise or promotion for the rest of your life” – and thats just employment..

even worse if you dont know how to sell yourself and are not very social.

waiting to die while not living is the end result..

and she is news cause she is so old…
if she was 20, no one would care..

dont matter
no one gets out alive anyway

It must have been a thrill to sing on BGT and receive that recognition, but her legacy is her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, who clearly loved her very much.

No regrets indeed! A life well-lived.

Thanks….